Adobe Flash Catalyst

Adobe® Flash® Catalyst™ is a new professional interaction design tool for rapidly creating expressive interfaces and interactive content without writing code. Create interactive portfolios, product guides, microsites, site navigation, interfaces for RIAs and more.

• Transform artwork created in Adobe Photoshop®, Adobe Illustrator®, and Adobe Fireworks® into interactive designs.
• Rapidly create interactive prototypes with the ability to leverage them in the final product
• Publish a finished project as a SWF file ready for distribution
• Work more efficiently with developers who use Adobe Flash Builder™ 4 to create rich Internet applications (RIAs). Designers use Flash Catalyst to create the functional user experience then provide the project file to developers who use Flash Builder to add functionality and integrate with servers and services.

New Beta 2 release adds support for video, sound effects, motion easing, AIR and more. Read about all of the new features.

Watch a video overview of Flash Catalyst (6 minutes)

Create the user experience through an approachable interaction design tool for designers with no coding required:

• Sell your ideas: Be able to show a functional design instead of static screenshots to communicate your ideas.
• Ensure your creative vision is accurately expressed: Design with the expressiveness of Flash Player.
• Fast learning curve: If you can use Photoshop or Illustrator you can quickly learn to use Flash Catalyst.

Features Introduced in Beta 2
Feature	Description
Faster performance	A noticeable performance increase over beta 1
Enhanced Interface	A more refined and easier to user interface
Video support	Import video files, use standard playback controls or easily create your own
Sound Effects	Add sound effects to interactions
More components	Convert artwork into more components such as sliders, radio buttons, scroll panel and more
More interactions	Specify a URL to open during an interaction, play a video
Export to AIR (in addition to SWF)	Export projects that run outside the browser using Adobe AIR.
Motion Easing	Define easing for more fluid motion
Filters	Apply multiple filters to alter graphics such as adding drop shadow, glow, blur and more.
Blend modes	Select how objects blend with other objects
Accessible Content	Create an accessible SWF file that can be used by the visually impaired.
SWF control	Play a SWF file from a specific frame
SWF output options	Create a SWF file that is deployable, redistributable and has fonts embedded.
Features Introduced in Beta 1
Feature	Description
Integration with Photoshop and Illustrator	Import native Photoshop or Illustrator files with full fidelity. Round-trip editing preserves the structure and interactions added in Flash Catalyst.
Transform artwork into a dynamic components	Transform any piece of artwork it into a dynamic component such as a button, scroll bar, text input field and more.
Interaction Design without coding	Create sophisticated interactions without writing any code.
Design-Time Data	Set the look and behavior of data when real data from servers is not available.
Create a list from artwork	Convert artwork into a component that has a variable number of items or rows of data.
Timeline panel	Graphically edit and create animated transitions between pages or states of components by specifying the start and duration time in seconds.
Pages and States	Organize your project into different pages create states for objects such as buttons.
Layout productivity tools	Achieve just the look you want quickly and precisely using layout tools that produce sophisticated page layouts.
Extend with Flash Builder	Provide your project files to developers who use Flash Builder to add functionality and integrate with servers and services.
Export to Flash Player	Export your project as a ready-to-publish Flash SWF for display in a web browser.

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